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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - T.E. Lawrence

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Attitude is Everything

Over the past few weeks, I've been spending a lot of time going through old folders, boxes, filing cabinets, etc. Below is a find from yesterday, dated 9/14/99, that I thought I'd share with everyone.

Four inflatable dams? No AMD or raw sewage?

The Butler Mine Tunnel is no more?

They missed the mark on more than a few predictions, and for these projections to come true, our current/future elected leaders and Mother Nature have their work cut out for them over the next 15 years. Obviously, for those that followed the life cycle of the proposed inflatable dams, you will remember that the CV was squarely in former Congressman Paul Kanjorski's corner until it became obvious the project was never going to materialize. And, in addition to the promise of jobs and economic revitalization, one of the many promises made by Camp Kanjo was to use the dam as a catalyst to clean up the Susquehanna.

In reality, if the Susquehanna's AMD ever goes away "naturally" - or otherwise - no one reading this blog will be alive to see it.

Switching gears; I had my final post-operative visit with my surgeon in Kingston on Friday. Future follow-up will be handled by one of the orthopedic surgeons my wife works with in southeastern PA. Like the visit itself, his parting message was fairly brief: stay safe ( wear braces for another 60-90 days ), take it slow to avoid injury ( it will be 6-12 months before you're back), and my favorite: "the rest is up to you."

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Across Time: The Words of a True American Patriot

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men."

- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)

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A Pennsylvania DEP person said WHAT?!?!

You've gotta love this one:

"Tarbell said various substances could easily seep into the groundwater through cracks in underground rockbeds created by the fracturing process of drilling for oil and gas, leading to the determination that Schreiner was the responsible party for the contamination."

I've been saying it all along; hydrofracturing can and will cause the contamination of our aquifers. BIG OIL and their cronies say it can't happen...viscosity or retrolinear osmotic biosis or some such quantum physics thing.

This person should be promoted for telling the truth. Wanna bet something else happens?